Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-02
MILL NOTES.

A charter has been granted to the Du-
quesne Tube Works Company, of Pitts
burg. The capital stock is $lOO0O Maybe
there are not enough tube factories already.
En-?
The Bristol Iron Company has been or
ganiZed at Ottawa, Canada, where the
principal office will be, with capital stock
OF 500, OOO for the purpose of mining and
manufacturing iron in that vicinity.
The Alabama and Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company is composed of that company
and the Sheffield and birmingham Railroad
Company. The capital stock of the consOl-
idatcd company is 81, 225, 900, OF which
| 1925, 600 is h. he retained in the treasury.
The pay roll OF the Pennsylvania Steel
Company for August tOOts up $40, 600.
| The tive blast furnaces are now in operation
and making large quantities of No. iron.
/ Work ON the new billet mill is being
pushed forward and is nearing completion.
The Standard nail and iron mill, at
/ Middleport, o., has been sold to King,
| Gilbert Il CO., OF Columbus, for $50, 600.
The mill has been idle long time, Int it
| is reported now that it will he started ut
once with full force.
The large new rolling mill aud machine
shops of the Bridgeport Copper Company,
| Bridgeport, Conn are nearing completion,
| aud additions are male almost every month
To this immense plaut. From 2O0 to 400
fresh hands will be needed there during
the year.
According to reports, proposition has
/ g. 4 =
burg, Pm to erect on the grounds of the
| East Chicago Steel Company, ut Ham.
mond, Iud., q blast furnace with coke
ovens attached, under a guarantee that
coke can be produced there from Councils
vile coal at a cost of 81 per ton less than
/ COnuellSville coke can he delivered. He
/ will also guarantee that the gas taken from
the coke ovens small he sufficient to raise
all the steam aud run all the heating fur
naCes required in their rolling mill and
steel works. 1t is stated that pig iron OF
the best BesSemer quality can be made
under these conditions at a cost OF Sl5 to
| SIC
II is possible KolcomO, Ind, will have q
| nail mill 4 mill owner Is now iuvesti,
| eating the claims the site presents with 9
view to erecting mill giving employment
| to 400 wOrkmen.
The blast furnace now in course of cree,
ton at Ashland, Wis, will be completed
BY December l, and will have capacity OF
eighty tons a day.
A new Whitewell oven is being erected
at the Sed Jacket furnace, New Castle. In
its construction POO. 900 ire brick will he
used. and it will cost about Sl0,OOO.
/ The North Star Iron Works, Minneap,
| oils, MINI, will remove to st. Louis.
The capacity Of the cOmpanY's works will
| I've doubled, and between 100 and 500 men
will bc employed, "a against 22O Mt pres
cnt.
! The work of changing the rail mill At
/ Whsatland, Pa, TO plate mill IS going
steadily on, and it is nearly ready now fol
tue reception OF the machinery for the lat
/ ter. These improvements are very sub,
Stantial, aud will probably cost upward oJ
$50, 600. When completed and the mill
resumes operations, upward Of 800 men will
I've employed.
| The Jefferson steel plant, at Steuben.
Vile, will not resume before October.
Smith 4 Laughlin, metallurgical engin,
GERS Of Pittsburg, have contracted with
the Britton Iron and Steel Company, Of
Cleveland, Ohio, for the erection of two
plate mill heating furnaces, work on which
has already been commenced.
The new blast furnace now building al
Emporium, Pa, will he - feet high, Ii
! feet diameter of bOsh. The blast will be
heated by means of three Siemeus Cowper
fire brick stoves, each Il feet in diameter
By 20 feet high. Steam will be supplied
by three batteries of boilers, supplied by
J. p. Witherow, Of Pittsburg. The cast
house will be brick structure $50 feet
in length by 80 feet span, the roof being
of wrought iron exclusively. The stock
horse, 200 feet in length by 75.